Linux browser overtake Windows

too bad it's because windows 98 marketshare continues falling month after month :O

Haha, nice subject, made me click only to literally laugh out loud when I read the post itself.

Let's give Vista at least one more year before we see it's market share more, it hasn't even been out a year yet and Windows XP is what, 6 years old already?

blowdart wrote:

Pretty poor showing from Vista.

A more mainstream source has it second only to Windows XP, double the share of Windows 2000.

Windows XP   80.48% 
Windows Vista   6.26% 
Windows 2000   3.66%
Mac OS   3.33%

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2

daSmirnov wrote:

A more mainstream source has it second only to Windows XP, double the share of Windows 2000.

Windows XP   80.48% 
Windows Vista   6.26% 
Windows 2000   3.66%
Mac OS   3.33%

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2

alwaysmc2 wrote:



daSmirnov wrote: A more mainstream source has it second only to Windows XP, double the share of Windows 2000. Windows XP   80.48%  Windows Vista   6.26%  Windows 2000   3.66% Mac OS   3.33% http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2

How do they figure the marketshare anyway?

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop wrote:



alwaysmc2 wrote:  daSmirnov wrote: A more mainstream source has it second only to Windows XP, double the share of Windows 2000. Windows XP   80.48%  Windows Vista   6.26%  Windows 2000   3.66% Mac OS   3.33% http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2 How do they figure the marketshare anyway?

by keeping browsers stats of websites

alwaysmc2 wrote:

so a bunch of popular websites submit their traffic information to websites like hitslink.com?

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop wrote:



alwaysmc2 wrote: so a bunch of popular websites submit their traffic information to websites like hitslink.com?

I think that the sites pay hitslink for keeping track of their visitors. probably no traffic informations are submitted: those websites just add a piece of javascript code that contacts the hitslink servers that do all the tracking.

blowdart wrote:

Linux browser overtake Windows

Windows 98 that is.

Operating Systems
5	Linux	1.34%
6	Windows 98	1.34%

alwaysmc2 wrote:



YearOfTheLinuxDesktop wrote:  alwaysmc2 wrote:  daSmirnov wrote: A more mainstream source has it second only to Windows XP, double the share of Windows 2000. Windows XP   80.48%  Windows Vista   6.26%  Windows 2000   3.66% Mac OS   3.33% http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2 How do they figure the marketshare anyway? by keeping browsers stats of websites

so a bunch of popular websites submit their traffic information to websites like hitslink.com?

GoddersUK wrote:



blowdart wrote: Linux browser overtake Windows Windows 98 that is. Operating Systems 5 Linux 1.34% 6 Windows 98 1.34% No, they're only equal...

No the report is only formated to two dp but sorted on the raw vaule, if you had the raw figures, then Linux would be higher  

PerfectPhase wrote:



GoddersUK wrote:  blowdart wrote: Linux browser overtake Windows Windows 98 that is. Operating Systems 5 Linux 1.34% 6 Windows 98 1.34% No, they're only equal...

No the report is only formated to two dp but sorted on the raw vaule, if you had the raw figures, then Linux would be higher  

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=5&qpcustom=Windows+98
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=5&qpcustom=Linux

This site says Linux is at 0.77% marketshare, while Windows 98 is at 0.98% marketshare.

So a discontinued, nine year-old OS version is still doing considerably better. Its comical at best.

Marketshare ratings have no relevence in my opinion. They do not speak for the quality or stability of an OS--as you can plainly see from this example; therefore they are useless in my opinion. All these graphs tells us that it takes nearly a decade for a once monopoly OS to fall into the sub-one percent bracket.

Chinmay007 wrote:


Statistics are silly.

Chinmay007 wrote:



Xaero_Vincent wrote: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=5&qpcustom=Windows+98 http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=5&qpcustom=Linux This site says Linux is at 0.77% marketshare, while Windows 98 is at 0.98% marketshare. So a discontinued, nine year-old OS version is still doing considerably better. Its comical at best. Marketshare ratings have no relevence in my opinion. They do not speak for the quality or stability of an OS--as you can plainly see from this example; therefore they are useless in my opinion. All these graphs tells us that it takes nearly a decade for a once monopoly OS to fall into the sub-one percent bracket.

Marketshare statistics are pointless for many reasons, one reason also being how many conclusions you can draw from them.

Microsoft peoples can draw that Linux currently small marketshare somehow makes the OS a joke, but Linux peoples can use the same statistics to show that if Linux growth continues at the same pace, Linux will surpass Windows marketshare in less then five years. Got to love exponential growth rates, eh?

Statistics are silly.

"There are lies, damn lies and statistics."